Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood
For two centuries, an extreme protectionist policy barred foreigners from setting foot in Japan—except for one tiny island
Speakers at a ceremony marking the liberation of Flossenbürg condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims of demilitarizing and de-Nazifying Ukraine
Fearful that the Able Archer 83 exercise was a cover for a NATO nuclear strike, the U.S.S.R. readied its own weapons for launch
Travel through time by lifting like passengers on the Titanic or swimming like the sixth U.S. president
For 75 years, images of bunker life have reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties and cynicism of the Atomic Age
The revenge saga blends traditional accounts with the supernatural to convey the lived experience of the Viking age
Sixty years after Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, world's fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S.
A scholar traces the folk figure's history from the Neolithic era to today
The Red Ball Express' truck drivers and cargo loaders moved more than 400,000 tons of ammo, gas, medicine and rations between August and November 1944
In the early 1900s, Joseph Mikulec traveled some 175,000 miles on foot, gathering 60,000 signatures in a leather-bound album that is now up for sale
An Austen expert and a period drama TV critic reflect on the enduring appeal of romance series set in turn-of-the-19th-century England
A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain
Known by the alias Lai Tek, the enigmatic communist swore allegiance first to France, then Britain and finally Japan
The story of a joint Smithsonian-Soviet-Ukrainian program in 1990 lends poignant resonance to Russia’s brutal invasion today
Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative
The fifth-century abbess is stepping out of the shadow of the better-known St. Patrick
A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism
The ground-breaking move heralds a new path for interactions between African and Western institutions
During WWII, the Nazis murdered 33,000 Jews at the ravine over just two days. Last week, a strike near the massacre site drew widespread condemnation
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